Synodic month length 29.67 days

Length of current 322 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 323 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 24 January 2026 Saturday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠239°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠239°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠276.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before perigee

10 days after point of apogee on 13 January 2026 at 20:48 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 29 January 2026 at 21:53 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 370 543 km

Moon after ascending node

2 days after its ascending node on 22 January 2026 at 00:03 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 February 2026 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

8 days after previous South standstill on 16 January 2026 at 05:25 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.302°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.361° in the next northern standstill on 29 January 2026 at 17:02 in ♊ Gemini.